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Recap of this week's keynote at the FETC Conference in Orlando by Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist at Google. He told attendees about the ways technology has -- and will continue to -- change K-12 education. Among other things, Casap said technology is causing students to learn in new ways and is providing them with almost constant access to information. The changing landscape, Casap said, makes it even more important for teachers to have access to professional development and for there to be a focus on digital leadership in schools.

YouCanBook.Me is an appointment scheduling tool that works with Google Calendar. We are looking for a solution for scheduling home visits and parent/teacher conferences. This might work well!

I used this for home visits this past summer and it worked great. For me, the only drawback was less control over scheduling. I was criss-crossing the county a couple of days because they pick the days and times, but otherwise it worked well for me and it was really easy. The parents thought it was easy too.

Useful for Google Apps as well.

Kelley Randall was so kind as to post her notes from this morning's (4/9/16) Intersection's presentation by Steve Zambo. I thought they would interest you. Also check out her links, especially to a video, the first in a series that St. John has begun.

We're using a GoogleDoc Spreadsheet to plan our singing/ensemble schedule for 2012-13. If you're interested in customizing it for yourself, just open the doc, go to File > Make a copy, and name your copy.

Choose which calendars to sync the iPhone (mobile) with. If you have multiple calendars you want to show up on your iPhone, this is the page that determines which show up on the iPhone.

Choose which calendars to sync the iPhone (mobile) with. If you have multiple calendars you want to show up on your iPhone, this is the page that determines which show up on the iPhone.

"Mobile devices are mainstream. In fact, according to our newest research more consumers in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan use a mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone) than a computer (desktop or laptop)."

Comparison of different cloud back ups.

It's baaaaaacccccckkkk!